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News as a carefully designed feed-lot experience
by Herb Ruhs, MD
| Oct. 31, 2007 |
Pinky B., in the dialog "Cable non-news network," wrote, "I just watched CNN interview some preacher of prejudice, and it lasted at least half an hour and I could feel my IQ dropping by the minute."
Probably more true a statement than was realized when authored. Recent studies of IQ, pre and post trivial rejections, reveal that people's IQs drop precipitously, as much as 25%, immediately after a discouraging word.
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This is one of the main fulcrums of propaganda.
It isn't just that CNN and the rest of the world wide propaganda industry are totally out to lunch reality-wise, it is that they deliberately present a false image so that, in effect, the viewer unconsciously feels disrespected by having an authority contradict their EXPERIENCED sense of reality.
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This is one of the main fulcrums of propaganda. It isn't just that CNN and the rest of the world wide propaganda industry are totally out to lunch reality-wise, it is that they deliberately present a false image so that, in effect, the viewer unconsciously feels disrespected by having an authority contradict their EXPERIENCED sense of reality.
Conscious, well-informed people (think about how much energy goes into preventing that from happening) realize that the "authority" that is contradicting their perceived view of reality is an enemy. Being disrespected by an enemy probably raises one's IQ. I haven't seen any research on that, but I would be surprised to find that test subjects rejected and disrespected by sources they identify as antagonistic have a similar transient loss of IQ.
So it isn't just misinformation, it is a direct attack on the mental functioning of the viewer. I consider anything but the briefest exposure to broadcast TV (I selectively watch DVDs of certain shows but I keep my mental armor on even then) to be a harmful toxic exposure.
The ultimate question is whether or not a given individual is comfortable living in our carefully designed feed-lot experience, being part of a herd kept for the pleasure and profit of a ruling class, and therefore an eager consumer of the scientifically designed mind food -- or whether an individual rejects external control of thought and feeling in favor of self respect, dignity and critical judgement.
Consider my analysis a plagiarism of Socrates' advice that "the unexamined life is not worth living."
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Let's be the first country ever to try our own war criminals.
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Mattel: Enslaving kids everywhere so your kids can have cheap toys.
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Herb Ruhs, MD
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